Beatrice Capra

A $220,000 WTA tournament will be held July 25-31 at Troy Park Tennis and Sports Center, the newly approved state-of-the-art complex being developed just off Interstate95 near U.S. 1 in Elkridge. Troy Park, a multi-use athletic park that will include 30 tennis courts, 12 of them indoor, is a seven-year dream pursued by Art Tollick, president of the Howard County Tennis Patrons. Tollick saw his dream turn to reality 26 days ago when he and Howard County Executive Ken Ulman signed a 40-year lease agreement.

Baltimore native Pam Shriver has been a Hall of Fame professional tennis player and an advocate for her hometown for more than half her 48 years. But Wednesday night at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, she will celebrate the 25th anniversary of her Tennis Challenge, which has raised millions for children's charities, and then close the door on that chapter of her successful life. What does her future hold? Can everyone say "Mommy"? When you talk to her now, she is usually sitting in a carpool line, helping with homework, making plans for participating at her kids' classroom activities or signing up for parent education courses -- how to interest your kids in reading, how to deal with children when they are angry.